We’re Fighting For Housing, Healthcare, Decent Wages And International Solidarity - Join Us!
As Ireland emerged from the Covid-19 lockdown, Éirígí activists were quick to resume campaigning on a wide range of issues, including housing, healthcare, decent wages and international solidarity. In Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Westmeath and elsewhere our activists have been highlighting injustice while also providing practical assistance and building community campaigns.
On July 4th our activists joined with hundreds of others on O’Connell Street in Dublin to oppose Israeli plans to illegally annex the West Bank.
We believe that campaigns have the power to politicise, empower and mobilise citizens into engines of change. Through grassroots activism people become confident, empowered and skilled. And most importantly campaigns give citizens the ability to win victories over the political establishment and the gombeen capitalist class.
On July 2nd Éirígí activists handed out free face masks to DART passengers at Clongriffen and Howth/Donaghmede stations in Dublin. This action followed the distribution of masks to LUAS passngers the week before in South Dublin. In doing so we highlighted the failure of transport providers to protect the health of their staff and passengers by providing free or low-cost masks.
Since 2006 Éirígí activists have campaigned on a wide range of political, economic, social and cultural issues. With broad front and stand-alone campaigns we have been to the fore of many of the most important issues of the last fifteen years.
Campaigns to defend Ireland’s natural resources from privatisation and campaigns to promote the Irish language. Campaigns to oppose the bank bailout and campaigns against further integration into an EU superstate. Campaigns against British royal visits and campaigns for international solidarity. Campaigns for universal public housing and campaigns for women’s rights.
On June 13th, Éirígí activists brought the ‘Vultures Out’ message to Avestus building sites in Sandyford and Kilmacud in Dublin, as shown in the video above. Avestus is the company at the heart of NAMA’s Project Nantes scandal.
All of our campaigning work is guided by an ideology that are anchored in centuries of Irish socialist republicanism, in the eternal principles of liberty, equality, justice, democracy and community. We do what we do to build support for the establishment of a new Thirty-Two County all-Ireland Republic.
Éirígí activist Eddie Reade (second from left in high-vis) has been central to the organisation of weekly community protests throughout June and July to demand the reinstatement of services at St Brigid’s Hospital in Carrcik-On-Suir.
Only a new all Ireland Republic can deliver the systematic change that our country needs - a New Republic that delivers equality and justice for all - a New Republic that ends the reign of the banker, landlord and bosses - a New Republic based on a new democratic economic model that will provide quality healthcare, education, housing and employment for all.
On June 27th Éirígí in Galway organised a pop-up poster campaign to highlight the exploitation of workers in Supermacs and across the fast food sector. The action highlighted in the video above was in response to Pat ‘Supermacs’ McDonagh’s call for the Covid-19 unemployment payment to be slashed.
As we have done since 2006, Éirígí will continue to campaign against exploitation and injustice into the future. The scale and success of those campaigns will depend on how many people join us - on people like you making the decision to get involved in politics, to work with like-minded people to build momentum for deep, systematic change - to build a New Republic from the community up.
If your’re ready to be the change, you can join us here.